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Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Leftist college staffed by leftist commies attended by leftists in training that called for defunding the police, reparations, acknowledging white racism and supported the bowel movement riots has a crime problem? Good, f-m.
My first apartment was located by Loyola near North Shore and Glenwood back in 1974-1979. It was a wonderful quiet neighborhood until the late 1970s when the Juneway Terrace POC burst out of their ghetto to wreak havoc. All of Rogers Park focused incorrectly on the spread of Uptown POC which never occurred, The Juneway Terrace POC are the most violent upon casual observation of CWBChicago reports. These same POC are the ones who terrorize the formerly pleasant Jewish areas of West Rogers Park. Who warped the little minds of these monsters?
In many respects, this is evolution at work in these far Left enclaves of censorship.
Well since these college students tend to vote for progs we could say that they are getting an education — sort of.
The Big 10 pipeline is drying up as college graduates skip over Chicago. And now the local college pipeline is drying up too as high school students skip Chicago over safety issues.
Creating Conservatives, 1 at a time, sometimes, 3 at a time.
THIN BLUE LINE: Isn’t It Funny How Left Wing Dominated Chicago Campuses — Where Cops Have Been Told To Stay Away — Are Now Being Targeted By Criminal Thug Gangs? No, It’s Not Funny — IT’S F**KING HILARIOUS – Second City Cop